Nevada football coach's salary increases 67 percent in 10 years

3:58 PM,
Nov. 6, 2013

Coach Brian Polian is pictured during the UNLV-Nevada game on October 26.

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Nevada is not immune to the escalation of football costs and salaries that are prevalent in FBS universities across the nation. It's just happening on a different scale than such schools as Colorado, as detailed in the latest USA Today report.

Nine years ago, when Chris Ault stepped down as athletic director and became the Wolf Pack's football coach for the third time, his base salary was about $300,000, and his total compensation for the 2004-05 fiscal year was about $350,000.